Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
Down-Up-Down strums for the E chord, followed by the melody.
Followed by:
using the little finger to hammer on at the 4th fret.
Alternatively, just strum a regular E chord.
Verse
You expected my war diaries
But time ran out and I, I let you down
A small thanks note written in French
is no shorthand for this thing gave me writers cramp.
Had a dream about shapeshifting
Well we move with such elegance
With such grace
With all our dignity just in place
For the Chorus, play a high E barre chord, and finger-pick.
Deer die
With their eyes wide open
Eyes wide open
Eyes wide open
Deer die
With their eyes wide open
Verse
Drawing tiny little pictures of skeletons
To get across a sense of impending doom
And the leaves like the outward to major leagues
They're like the foxes on the hard shoulder
And for some reason I think that I have twisted
This story to the fight last year and it turned out
that this is it so he goes to back his track
and for the signs we never signed
Chorus
Breakdown
(Play an E chord, building up gradually)
Drawing tiny little pictures of skeletons
To get across a sense of impending doom
And I am seventeen pages through this notebook now
And there are little more than pictures
of how I see you on an x-ray machine
Its more like a television screen and you're in iraq
And I know that you know what I mean
And I realise, sensation hits
Not even two girls requires to have a sailor smile.
(At the end of the breakdown, there's a big mess of noise, I use a C major barre chord
just mess around really, there's no set thing to do here, just make the chord sound as
as possible.)
Post-Chorus:
(Play a high E Barre chord, and follow the melody of the vocals by switching to a high A
at the end of each line)
Turn up on your doorstep
Feeling like roadkill
Decent like postage stamps
And when I turn to you, you feeling like i never know
Everything I ever wrote
Pouring out of your mouth.
End on E